The Fruit of Tito

Chapter 25: The Greatest Mind And The One Who Controls Time

Indra took a deep sigh as she stepped outside the gigantic mansion that King called home, as soon as she stepped in front of the mansion's large gate it automatically opened like it was expecting her. Indra quickly walked down the excruciatingly long pathway to the large front door of King's mansion, she raised her hand to knock on the door but as soon as she did the large and heavy looking door swung open with ease. King stepped out in front of Indra with an assortment of pills in his right hand and a smoothie in his left, he looked down at his expected guest with a smirk.

Indra didn't take kindly to King's gesture and quickly pulled out a scalpel from her back pocket and jammed it in King's throat. Indra yanked the scalpel out violently which caused blood to spray all over Indra, specifically her face. A bit of King's blood directly sprayed in Indra's eyes causing her to suddenly shut her eyes in pain. When she opened them again there was no more blood and the scalpel she drive into King's neck was back in her back pocket, King still smirked down at Indra before giving her a slight bow.

"I see you're still a tad upset with me." King joked as he stuffed his mouth with the pills in his right hand, he quickly washed the pills down with the smoothie in his other hand. "Why are you taking pills now?" Indra asked puzzled. "Come inside, we have a lot to discuss." King stated with a smile as he walked back inside his home. Indra followed him through his house until King stopped in front of a black door. "Watch your step." King informed Indra as he opened the door to the pitch black room, Indra nodded and stepped inside the room soon after King.

King easily maneuvered through the pitch black room while Indra stumbled along behind him; she was grateful when King flicked on the lights to the dark room. Vials, beakers, and other kinds of lab equipment were scattered across the floor but the thing that caught Indra's eye was the five human sized tubes that were filled with liquid soul energy and each contained one person inside. "What is all this?" Indra asked, her curiosity and wonder as high as it's ever been in a while.

"It's your gift. I know you theorized about metaphysical soul energy that could be stabilized into physical matter, I became interested in your studies in this subject so I used your notes as a basis and it turns out you're right." King walked over to the nearest tube and drained some of the liquid inside a small cup which was actually a fairly big cup but looked small in King's hands; Indra realized this when King gave her the cup full of the liquid soul energy and noticed her hands could barely hold the cup.

"I know the process of transferring to another world completely uses up your soul energy, and I want you to have the first taste of one of your life's work." King politely offered while bowing his head to his former teacher. Indra didn't say a word as she quickly raised the cup to her lips and began drinking, after the first sip she began greedily gulping down the liquid so fast that some spilled down her face and onto her clothes. Indra threw to cup to the side when she was sure all of the liquid was gone, Indra raised her hands to her face and bawled them into fists then opened them, Indra was going to tell King that she didn't feel any different although the liquid tasted good.

But as soon as she opened her mouth her body involuntarily violently spasmed for a few seconds before stiffening up. Indra's eyeballs began slowly darkening into a deep black color completely blacking out her irises and only leaving two purple pupils. Soul energy rapidly began flowing into Indra's body so much so, that the soul energy began leaking out of her body in thick, black, slimy chunks. Thick, curved black markings began sprouting beneath Indra's eyes, going all the way down to her jaw. "Now this is the Indra I knew and respected." King praised Indra as he bent down on one knee while bowing his head.

"You may raise your head. With most of my power restored I can effectively dispose of my old vessel, I'm glad my theory turned out to be true." Indra gloated as she looked around for a place to sit but unfortunately didn't find a chair or sofa. "Just another one to add to the list." King continued to praise Indra as he walked over to the door they came through. "Oh you flatter me." Indra joked as she walked through the door King held open for her.

"Take a right, that's where the first floor living room is." Indra followed King's directions and took a right and walked down the hallway until she saw a large black sofa, she quickly plopped down on it as King made his way into the living room with two cups of white wine in hand. He handed Indra one which she happily took before sitting down in a large recliner chair, next to the sofa Indra laid on.

"So you haven't killed your old vessel yet this is unlike you." King stated. "I've been sort of attached to him, attached to seeing him suffer. So, I'll be slowly watching him lose his mind and become corrupted." Indra responded with her index finger pointed up. Black worm-like slime began circling and going in and out of Indra's finger.

"Curse!? You're putting your curse on him?!" King exclaimed in surprise. "Well I planted my curse a while ago but I never had the energy to fully activate it, until now of course." Indra responded after taking a sip from the glass of wine she held, King nodded his head in understanding before asking another question.

"What does your curse do?" Indra chuckled at King's question before answering with a wide smile that showed off her teeth. "It gives the host insane power and also gives the host 'zoned-in.' But the more they use this power the more they drive themselves mad, completely losing themselves and slowly going insane." Indra laughed as she explained, reminiscing the times where she inflicted her curse on people.

"Zoned-in? Are you sure it's safe just giving people that transformation even if they most likely will go insane?" King asked with slight concern in his voice. Indra waved her hand as a signal that she was dismissing King's question. "That Tito also obtained Jozu somehow." "Oh really? This just increases his threat level." King responded.

"No need, they'll never be able to work together either Jozu will Kill Tito or they'll just part ways. I've made sure to break her mentally so that no one would ever be able to use her. Y'know for me she appeared as a beautiful rapier? I would constantly bend and break her blade on purpose causing blood to ooze out of the broken blade. But now she's an ugly cleaver with bandages and chains wrapped around her. All my doing of course." Indra mocked Jozu with a smile on her face.

"Well if you're not worried I won't be either." King said while shrugging. "Are you still upset with me?" King asked after a few seconds of silence. Indra paused before responding. "I'd say after dying and coming back to this world ten times after my banishment I am no longer upset." Indra answered which made King sigh in relief.

"You know I never did take credit for your work in the very small group of people that are knowledgeable about our work, they know it's all thanks to you and worship you." King stated which made Indra's grow wide.

"Very interesting."